Alberto Manguel Quotes:
Ocupation: Writer
Life: b. 1948
Slothful, feeble, pretentious, pedantic, elitist - these are some of the epithets that eventually become associated with the absent minded scholar, the poor sighted reader, the book worm, the nerd.
source: "A History of Reading". Book by Alberto Manguel, 1996.
topic: Book, Nerd, Poor, Epithet, Absent Minded, Pedantic
